ROY HESS | Staff Writer
The Pace Vikings completed their scrimmage schedule with a victory at home against Edinburg Economedes on Friday at Pace.
The Vikings scored twice and shut out the Jaguars during the first-half controlled portion of the scrimmage for a 2-0 tally. During two quarters of live action in the second half, Pace won 7-6.
“Usually you want to come out clean in these scrimmages, and we had one injury tonight,” Pace coach Danny Pardo said. “But as far as what we wanted to see from our guys, we saw it. Economedes is pretty physical and we’re not very big, and more of a team with speed, so we wanted to see how we would do.
“I think our guys did a great job, they really did,” Pardo added, “We had our backups in there almost the whole second quarter because we didn’t want any (more) of our starters to get hurt. Even those backups played hard, which is really what I like to see. It was getting to a point where we didn’t want any more starters to get hurt.
“Our backups did a very good job of responding to the challenge (of playing). They did well. We turned the ball over late. That’s how Economedes’ score was set up. The bottom line is we just have to get better.”
Dylan Barron went up the middle and scored from 1 yard out to give Pace a 1-0 edge in the controlled portion to start the game. The score came on the eighth play of the Vikings’ first possession.
Later during the same possession, Jose Banda threw a 40-yard scoring pass to Jaylun Garcia to make it 2-0 during the controlled portion.
With 42 seconds remaining during the first of two quarters in the second half, the Vikings went up 7-0 in the game situations part of the contest when Garcia caught a 20-yard scoring pass from Marcos Cuevas. The extra point made it 7-0.
After a Pace fumble at midfield, the Jaguars drove down and scored their lone TD on a run off the right side from 1 yard out by a running back.
Economedes threw a pass on the two-point conversion attempt but it fell incomplete, leaving the score 7-6 in favor of the Vikings.